Natural Sodium?

jhacker
jhacker Posts: 301 Member
edited September 19 in Food and Nutrition
I know with sugar its a little better to have natural sugars from fruit. Is there such a thing for natural sodium?:ohwell:

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  • jhacker
    jhacker Posts: 301 Member
    I know with sugar its a little better to have natural sugars from fruit. Is there such a thing for natural sodium?:ohwell:
  • keiko
    keiko Posts: 2,919 Member
    Interesting question. I have heard that celery is high in sodium. But I don't think I ever eat that much at one time for it to be bad. What other foods have sodium naturally? This is something that I've never thought about. I'm looking forward to what others say on this subject.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Sodium is sodium is sodium. Whether it's in a salt shaker, on a pretzel, or in a veggie, it's the same stuff.
    All sugars come from natural sources...table sugar is glucose (a simple sugar used in energy production for all beings that use glycolysis, which is almost everything) plus fructose (sugar found in plants), milk sugar is lactose (a combo of glucose and galactose), and even high fructose corn syrup is just corn syrup with fructose added to it (sounds like a deadly combination, huh? :wink: ). You could say HFCS is man made, but the two sugars in it still come from plants. Many fruits have a higher glycemic index than starchy carbohydrates or milk. Some are just as insulogenic as table sugar.
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